A/N: Okay, this is my first NCIS fanfic, but I promised to write my hin a NCIS fic for Christams, well, that didn't work so I said her birthday. Yeah, that didn't work either. So, yeah, now I'm finally posting and finsihing. I hope you all like it. I'm not all that pleased with what I rote but it was months ago that it was written.

Summary: It starts right after Kate gets shot by Ari, and she dies, but at the time she's pregnant with Tony's baby and they save their daughter. Tony is then left to bring up the daughter he didn't know about.

Please give me reviews. Enjoy.

For Beth. :D Love you hin


"We need to get her to hospital quick!" Gibbs slipped his arm under Kate and picked her up, hoping they'd be able to do something to save her.

"Boss, she's gone." Tony looked at Kate sadly.

"We can't just let her go, she's pregnant!" Gibbs turned and headed straight for the NCIS van while Tony just stood in shock watching his boss. "DiNozzo, get your ass in the van now!"

Tony snapped out of his trance and joined his boss in the van, holding Kate's body close. She was still warm, she still felt with them. Apart from the bullet hole in her head, she looked like she was sleeping peacefully. He gripped the dashboard of the van as Gibbs took a sharp corner quickly, this was the one time Tony loved Gibbs' driving.

Ten minutes after arriving at the hospital Gibbs and Tony stood in the hallway waiting for news. Kate was in the OR, the surgeons keeping her body alive, keeping her body breathing just so they could get the baby out.

"She's pregnant?" Tony looked at his boss.

"Yeah, about six and half months." Gibbs nodded numbly.

"I just thought she had gotten fat." Tony mused.

"Well she wasn't, DiNozzo." Gibbs snapped. "She's pregnant." He sighed and rubbed his hands over his face.

"I didn't know she had a boyfriend."

"She doesn't, they must have split." Just then the doors to the OR opened and some nurses pushed an incubator out with a small crying baby in there. Both Tony and Gibbs looked up.

The nurses quickly disappeared and a surgeon appeared a few minutes later. "I'm so sorry, but there was nothing we could do to save her, we just about managed to save her daughter." Neither Gibbs nor Tony said anything for a while and the surgeon left them alone.

"I'm going to kill that bastard." Gibbs hit a wall. "I should have known he wasn't after me."

"Boss, it isn't your fault, you didn't shoot her."

"I should have known though, DiNozzo, I should have known." He ran a hand over his face again. "We need to contact her family; someone needs to care for her baby." Tony just nodded feeling numb, she was actually gone. Just then Gibb's phone started to buzz in his pocket, he flipped it open without looking at the ID. "Gibbs."

"Is it true? Is she dead? Please tell she's not dead, Gibbs." Abby's voice rang through the phone. "Please tell me it wasn't her."

"I'm so sorry, Abs, but it was, there was nothing they could do."

"What about the baby." She tried to keep her tears in but failed.

"They saved her, she's small though, I don't know how she's doing, we need to contact her family, someone has to care for Kate's daughter."

"She's Tony's, Gibbs. Tony is the father of Kate's baby. They had a drunken night together and she fell pregnant, she didn't know how to tell him. You have to tell him, Gibbs."

Gibbs turned to look at Tony who was just sat starring ahead of him. "Okay, Abs, I'll tell him." He flipped his phone closed and sat next to Tony. "I know who the father is of Kate's baby."

Tony just slowly turned to look at his boss.

"It's you, she was carrying your baby. You're now a father."

Tony was at a loss for words, that was his baby, that one night he and Kate had spent together created a life, a tiny human being. It couldn't be, could it? "Are…are you sure it's my baby?"

"She told Abby, and Kate wouldn't lie about something like this."

"Why didn't she tell me?"

"She didn't know how, Tony."

Tony just nodded and stared ahead again.

"You should go and see your daughter." Gibbs stood up from the chair. "She has no one right now. You're all she has at the moment."

Tony nodded again and stood, following Gibbs down the hallway.

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"She's so small." Tony looked down at his daughter in the incubator. She was hooked up to machines, monitoring her heart, breathing and other things. "She's too early." He slipped his hand inside one of the holes on the side and let her grip his finger. "She has a strong grip though." He looked at her amazed. She turned her head and opened her eyes, staring at him with big hazel eyes, just like Kate's. "Hey baby." He smiled at her. "I…I'm your daddy." She just looked at him and gripped his finger tighter, kicking her tiny legs slightly. "Your mom would have been so proud. She would have loved you to bits." He felt the tears sting the back of his eyes and his voice was hoarse as he spoke. "She should still be here, you should still be inside of her, growing, getting ready to face the world." He stroked her dark hair with his thumb, she was so tiny.

"She's a fighter this one." Tony looked up to see a nurse stood there. "She's doing really well for a premature baby." She smiled. "What are you going to call her?"

"I don't know, I haven't thought about it, I didn't know about her until today." Tony looked at his daughter and realised how much she looked like Kate. "Caitlyn Jenna Todd-DiNozzo, Kate for short." He smiled at the choice of name, it suited her.

"That's a nice name. Hopefully Kate will be out before Christmas."

"Yeah, hopefully." He would have a daughter to take home for Christmas. Shit, he had a daughter, someone to take care of, someone who would rely on him completely. He was going to have to change his life, and his house. "How long do you reckon she'll be in here for?"

"Well, if she keeps going as strong as she is, and becomes the right weight, then I can't see why she won't be home for Christmas." The nurse smiled at him. She always loved watching new parents with their newborns, but she hated seeing parents like this.

"Okay." He nodded. He just wanted to take her home now.

"I'll give you some time alone with her." The nurse smiled and left the room.

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"I want to find Ari now, and I want him dead." Gibbs stormed into MTEC. "He killed one of my agents I want him dead."

"Calm down, Jethro, we'll get him." The voice was stern and Gibbs froze, turning to look to where the voice came from in the chair, which turned slowly.

"Jen?" He looked at her in shock. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm your new director." She stood from her chair and walked towards him. "We will find Ari, don't worry." Gibbs just looked at her for a while before nodding.

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"She's gorgeous, Tony. She looks just Kate. Kate would have been proud." Abby smiled at the tiny baby in the incubator.

"I know." He sighed. "She should be the one bringing her up, I have no idea about kids. I can't do this, Abs."

"You can Tony and you will." She smiled at him, she had faith. She knew he could be a father to baby Kate. He could no matter what he thought.